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Crashes and collisions on the roads and highways throughout Indiana can be extremely dangerous. Crashes involving motorcycles can be even more serious as motorcycle riders are not protected in a crash the way the driver of a car is. As such, a rider’s injuries can be very severe. Severe injuries lead to costly medical bills that the motorcycle rider might be unprepared to pay for. If you were hurt in a motorcycle accident, you can sue the other driver and hold them accountable for your injuries.
Motorcycle accidents are frequently caused by other drivers who fail to look out for motorcycle riders on the road. Motorcycles are smaller than ordinary cars and trucks, so they are sometimes missed by inattentive drivers. However, that is no excuse for negligent drivers, and they must be held responsible. You can file a personal injury lawsuit against other drivers who you believe caused your accident.
After a motorcycle accident, you may have expensive medical bills, repair bills for your bike, and other damages that must be paid for. Our Indianapolis motorcycle accident lawyers can help you get the financial compensation you need to recover. Contact the team at Wruck Paupore for a free legal consultation regarding your case. Call our offices at (219) 322-1166 to get started.
Motorcycle accidents are rarely minor events. While normal car accidents can see drivers walk away relatively unharmed in some cases, motorcycle riders are rarely so lucky. Riders are not protected by an enclosed vehicle, nor are they strapped in with seatbelts. If another vehicle strikes a motorcycle rider, the rider is likely to be thrown from their bike at a very high rate of speed.
Bumps, bruises, scrapes, and fractures are all common injuries from motorcycle crashes. Sometimes riders skid against the pavement so hard that they suffer extreme road rash. Other times, riders are slammed into trees, road barriers, or walls and sustain broken bones or other more serious injuries.
Helmets are crucial to motorcycle rider safety. Without a helmet, you could suffer brain injuries that might leave you permanently disabled. Even with a helmet, you could still suffer spinal cord injuries that may impair your ability to walk or other bodily functions. These debilitating injuries may take a serious toll on your mental health as well. People who survive motorcycle accidents may deal with depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
A negligent driver should not be able to hurt you so severely and get away with it. You can make them pay for their actions in a personal injury lawsuit. Call our Indianapolis motorcycle accident attorneys today to get help.
Many different factors could lead to a motorcycle accident. The biggest concern with motorcycle accidents is that minor mistakes for drivers in cars and trucks have massive consequences for motorcycle riders. This is why other drivers on the road must exercise caution when driving around motorcycles.
Many motorcycle accidents happen because other drivers are not paying attention. We all know that if a driver takes their eyes off the road, it only takes a few seconds before an accident can happen. With phones, GPS, and other distractions in the car, drivers are very easily distracted.
Drivers in cars and trucks also tend to forget about motorcycle riders when changing lanes or merging. Since motorcycles are smaller vehicles, they may more easily fit within a driver’s blind spot. If a driver is not careful, they may strike a motorcycle rider when trying to merge, change lanes, or turn.
Even when a driver is aware of a motorcycle rider near them, sometimes they misjudge things like speed and distance. Since motorcycles are smaller, a driver in a car might underestimate the distance they need to keep from a motorcycle when driving behind them. They could end up rear-ending the rider and knocking them off their bike. They could also swerve into a rider when trying to pass them.
Motorcycle accidents may also happen in much the same way as any other accident. Speeding, failing to stop at signs or lights, not signaling, and other driving violations contribute to motorcycle accidents. If you were injured in a motorcycle accident, call our Indianapolis motorcycle accident attorneys for help.
After filing a personal injury lawsuit for injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash, you must present evidence and arguments to support your claims for damages. Proving fault can be tricky, and the evidence necessary in each case may vary.
Accident scenes are usually cleared as quickly as possible by law enforcement and emergency personnel, and evidence is often lost. It is imperative to try to create some record of the accident scene. If you are able and feel safe doing so, try taking pictures and recording videos of the crash scene. If you are injured and unable to do this, focus instead on getting medical treatment as quickly as possible. If you cannot take photographs of the scene, the police will create a report on your accident with important information about the scene.
You should also try to identify people on the scene who might have witnessed the accident. Their testimony may be very helpful to your case. If you cannot identify these people at the actual crash scene, you may find their information in the police report.
The police report itself can also be used as evidence, but typically the officer who wrote the report must testify. Having the testimony of a law enforcement official on your side may lend some much-needed credibility to your case and sway a court in your favor. Call our Indianapolis motorcycle accident lawyers today to discuss what kind of evidence you might need for your case.
Your expenses should be covered and your damages paid for after suffering a motorcycle collision. Our Indianapolis motorcycle accident lawyers can help you get the money you need to finance your recovery. Call the offices of Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166 to get started now.
Don is a founding partner and one of the nation’s top-ranked personal injury litigators. He is a member of the Multi-million Dollar Advocates Forum, which includes less than 1% of the nation’s trial lawyers, and awarded the highest ranking given by Martindale Hubbel and AVVO.
More importantly, Don understands representing personal injury victims is about more than recovering the best settlement: it’s about helping clients get back on their feet and supporting them in every aspect of their recovery.
In nearly all cases, our clients seek compensation from the wrongdoer’s insurance company. Before forming Wruck Paupore, Jason worked for a prominent law firm representing some of the world’s largest insurers. This experience gives Jason a deep understanding of the insurance industry and the strategies it uses to pay injury victims as little as possible.
Jason -- and our entire team -- put this inside knowledge to work to force insurance companies to pay what is actually owed. Often, we use the insurance company’s own tactics against them as we fight for the full compensation our client deserves.
For more than four decades, Keith has been fighting for injury victims. During that time, he’s watched the insurance industry change, with insurers now more interested in protecting their stock price than treating injury victims fairly.
Since the beginning, Keith has put people first. From his childhood in Gary, Indiana during the 1960’s and working his way through law school, Keith has risen to become one of the Midwest’s most respected trial lawyers. He has never forgotten that being a lawyer is about helping people -- and seeing injury victims through struggles in a way that could change their lives forever.
Over the decades, Keith, Don and Jason have fought relentlessly for clients, even when other lawyers have said the case was impossible to win.
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